The Power of Play: Innovative Healing Techniques in Child Play Therapy

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This training unravels the essential concepts and practices of play therapy, equipping professionals with the tools to effectively support children in a therapeutic setting. Participants will explore the history and evolution of play therapy, gaining a solid foundation in its theoretical underpinnings. Participants will develop the skills to identify implicit biases in themselves and others, while cultivating cultural humility to foster more inclusive, equitable, and respectful interactions in professional and personal settings. The stages of play therapy and the specific interventions most effective for each stage are explained, empowering you to tailor your approach to meet each child’s unique needs. The training also emphasizes the importance of engaging clients in the treatment planning process, providing practical strategies to foster collaboration and buy-in. You will gain hands-on experience with developmentally appropriate interventions for addressing common childhood issues such as anger and ODD, depression, and anxiety.

Target audience: Counselors, Social Workers, Play Therapists

Content level: Beginner

About the instructor

Nikole R. Jiggetts, LCSW is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Certified Trauma Practitioner and author. She is the CEO and owner of Replay Counseling Center, LLC. Also known as Replay Counseling and Consulting. She is a graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work, with an MSW in 2000. Nikole has been working with children, adolescents and their families for over 20 years. She is passionate about providing individuals with the opportunity to work through their difficulties and begin to start feeling better about their lives utilizing expressive therapies, including play, art, and yoga in sessions.

In addition to serving as an adjunct professor for the VCU School of Social Work, she is also a life coach, parenting consultant and registered yoga teacher. Nikole also provides training for mental health clinicians in the states of Virginia and Maryland as well as the District of Columbia, for the past 10 years.

Attendees will be able to:

•Describe relevant historical perspectives of play therapy.

•Explain the stages of play therapy and specific interventions.

•Explain implicit bias and practice cultural humility in diverse settings.

•Describe practical strategies to engage clients in the treatment planning process.

•Demonstrate how to apply effective, efficient and developmentally appropriate play therapy interventions specific to Anger and ODD childhood depression, and anxiety.

•Describe the application of art and play therapy in assisting clients to express feelings.

8:00-8:30- registration and sign-in

8:30-10:00- History, Development and Theory of Play Therapy

Break

10:15-12:00- Play Therapy Treatment Stages, Techniques Cultural Humility in the Playroom

Lunch 12-1

1-2:15- Client Centered Treatment Planning P.A.T.H. and Rapport building activities

Break

2:30-3:30- Directive Play Therapy Use of Games and Art

3:30-4:00- Wrap-up

Registration will be managed by Eventbrite.

Full registration fee is $100 per indivual. If you have any questions about your registration or require accomodations please contact Jesse Callan, LCSW-C at [email protected]

Refund requests can be made through the EventBrite website or via email to [email protected] up to 48 hours before the start of a program. We are happy to provide the fullest possible refund to either the credit card used for purchase or in the form of credit for a future course.

In order to receive full credit for this course, participants must attend for the entire duration of the course and complete a course evaluation form. Partial credit CE certificates will not be distributed. CE certificates will be distributed immediately after the end of the course and upon submission of course evaluation form.

Thrive Behavioral Health, Provider #1729, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Thrive Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/11/2023 - 10/11/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.

Thrive Behavioral Health, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7008. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Thrive Behavioral Health, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Thrive Behavioral Health, LLC approves this continuing education program for 6 NBCC clock hours.

Thrive Behavioral Health, LLC has been approved by APT as an APT Approved Provider, provider number 23-712. Thrive Behavioral Health, LLC approves this continuing education program for 6 contact CE credits.

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